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Body Dysmorphia, Roger Weiss

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Francis Bacon’s Art studio at 7 Reece Mews

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J.R. FURBUSH

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Vladimir Tretchikoff, “The Green Lady”, 1952

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigerian/American, b. 1983), Garden Party, 2019. Acrylic, colour pencil, collage, and transfers on paper, 157.2 x 152.5 cm

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Miho Aida by Omura Katsumi (1993)

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photographer. mar shirasuna 

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Gradiva, 1931, Salvador Dali

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I gave in. Follow me!

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Dantes Werke: Das Neues Leben; Die Göttliche Komödie. Leipzig, 1909.

The Library of Congress is hosting a symposium today celebrating Dante Alighieri’s 750th birthday. We’re not sure why this work is in our rare books law collection, but we thought we’d post it in solidarity with the LOC’s event.

Several of the pictures are different versions of title pages from Dante’s work and the initial illustration depicts Dante’s description of hell from his Divine Comedy. 

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“As the geometrician, who endeavours To square the circle, and discovers not, By taking thought, the principle he wants, Even such was I at that new apparition; I wished to see how the image to the circle Conformed itself, and how it there finds place; But my own wings were not enough for this, Had it not been that then my mind there smote A flash of lightning, wherein came its wish. Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy: But now was turning my desire and will, Even as a wheel that equally is moved, The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.”

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy Canto XXXIII - Paradiso

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The Travelling Circus, 1940, Paul Klee

Medium: lithography

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The sheer clarity of this waterfall in Alaska

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Blind swimmers (Effect of a touch), 1934, Max Ernst

Medium: oil,canvas